In essence, there is not much to say. Results are all below the 5% margin, adding the balloon thread did not affect performance or process creation/scheduling drastically. It is all noise. The timeout delay added by cherry@ seems to be reasonable (can be revisited later, but does not seem to be critical).

In essence, there is not much to say. Results are all below the 5% margin, adding the balloon thread did not affect performance or process creation/scheduling drastically. It is all noise. The timeout delay added by cherry@ seems to be reasonable (can be revisited later, but does not seem to be critical).